Our Green Pet Family is honored to team up with @pet_biotics and @barkbistrocompany to help assist the overheating issue at Palm Beach County Animal Shelter. Please see the shelter's website to find out how you can help! #GoGreenOrGoHome

I always bring two bags. One to fill with produce, one for everything else. This week I shopped @wholefoods and had a great time.
A few things I want to mention about this photo:
1. You can see the elastics on my produce. Because I typically shop for vegetables at my local farmers’ market, I don’t usually have rubber bands on my greens. I save them when I do and reuse them for things like hair ties (having dreads makes this possible!), bag ties, etc.
2. I use reusable containers for anything bulk or fresh. For example, the small container is full of fresh dumplings 🥟
3. There is a bag of chips in this photo. I reuse these bags for purposes like trash or cleaning my cats litter box. It is required here that our trash be in bags or it will not be taken and this is a way I prevent the bag from being single use.

FOOD WASTAGE // 35% of the average Australian household bin is food waste, which ends up costing us around $3000 a year. I don’t know about you but I’d rather be spending that $3k on a holiday 🌴 ☀️ ⠀
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Composting is an easy way to reduce the amount of food waste you put in your bin. ⠀
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You can ease yourself into composting by collecting a weeks worth of scraps and then taking them to your local community garden to compost them there. ⠀
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Bokashi bins and worm farms are also easy methods to start you on your composting journey. ⠀
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Check out the link in my bio for everything you need to get started with a Bokashi ⠀
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ALERT 🚨 We have an exciting new addition to tomorrow's Music line-up 🎶
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If you're attending, be prepared to be blown away by @e.c.gold incredible voice 🤛
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If you love pop music spiced up with soulful blues tones and hints of London grit you're in for a treat 💚
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Please check your emails for important event details and our 'Bring your own scheme' to save dollar and the planet 🌎
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Super excited to see you all there tomorrow 🎉 #noplanetblondon
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Link in bio for tickets to Sept 13th event

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Our precious yellow gold and diamond elephants just hanging out on national elephant day. We hope that these giant beauties will start being treated with the respect and admiration that they deserve. #secretejewelry#thequalityisvisible

HOW WE SAVE MONEY TO AFFORD BUYING ORGANIC FOOD
We don’t waste food! In average 20-25% of the food you buy gets wasted. That’s hundreds of dollars a year 💸!
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We apply the 80:20 rule to the food items we choose. 80% “cheap” staples or veggies (in our case: millet instead of quinoa, oats+raisins instead of granola, flax seeds instead of chia seeds, lentils instead of tofu, squashes, cabbages, zucchinis when in season, etc.), 20% pricey things (berries, bell peppers, sweets, jams, spreads, nuts, things from the deli counter etc.). When we are strapped for money we ditch the whole “pricey food” category altogether. It’s a luxury, not a necessity after all.
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We don’t buy beverages like soda or juice. Instead, we stick to tap water 💧and (herbal) tea 🍵and make a smoothie from time to time. We also make our own plant-based mylks (article on that coming up on my blog soon!)
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We have swapped all single-use items in our house for reusables, or have gotten rid of them altogether.
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I firmly believe a sustainably lifestyle isn’t about buying “green” alternatives. It’s about buying LESS! This one’s the biggest money saver. Just don’t buy all that crap in the first place, it won’t make you happier.
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We wear our clothes 🧦👖until they literally fall apart (after mending them several times), so we only buy very few pieces every year, if at all.
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We reflect if it’s a need or a want before we buy anything that’s not an essential consumable (e.g. food, cleaning ingredients). If we do buy something, we ask around if anyone has a spare they don’t need, if they don’t we try to buy it pre-owned. Only if there’s no other alternative do we buy something new.
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We DIY our cleaning and skin care products 💆‍♀️💁‍♂️(I have all recipes in my book “Zero Waste: Simple Life Hacks to Drastically Reduce your Trash” @skyhorsepub or “Zero Waste: Weniger Müll ist das neue Grün” @freyaverlag)
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Most people buy more than what they can realistically use up before it goes bad, or even more than what they can use in a lifetime! So we often use up things from our parents and friends. My mom just gave me bag full of 15+ year old hotel soap! We’ll use it for laundry.

✨DIY #zerowaste cereal to lure you in✨. I woke up energized & excited this morning. This weekend took me back to Philly, my college town. I’ve said this before, but I think ✨my special talent is attracting the best friends✨.
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Even when I think I don’t have room for others, just the ones I need enter my life. I channel the best qualities in all my friends at different times. For example, I channel @georgiabobley when I just need to get over something, @qtkends when I need to be smart, loving & fun, @brian_mayrsohn when I need to stop thinking so much + go after something, @kira_okin when I need to remind myself that I can persevere through anything & @ruthiefrieds when I need confidence, connection to my younger self & (obviously) style. Now that I have @thewellnecessities & @carolynbrownnutrition in my life, I channel them when I need courage to be open & express myself unapologetically.
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Although I mostly talk about how to reduce physical waste on this platform, 🌱it’s time I mention how my friends & family help me reduce life’s non-physical waste -- stress, worry, overthinking, etc.🌱Without my support system, I’d waste a lot more time on unimportant things & I’d drown in unhelpful emotions. I rely on them to truly live my #lowwaste life.
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My dreamy husband @robertkpcannon pointed out that I didn’t mention him & suggested that I note that I only mentioned a few friends here so this post isn’t too long. Don’t worry Rob, I channel you the most. #happyabby#grateful#lowwasteliving#sunday